ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,682,547, issued on July 14, was assigned to ADOBE INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"3D model rendering using importance sampling" was invented by Milos Hasan (Lafayette, Calif.), Iliyan Georgiev (London), Sai Bi (San Jose, Calif.), Julien Philip (London), Kalyan K. Sunkavalli (Saratoga, Calif.), Xin Sun (Palo Alto, Calif.), Fujun Luan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kevin James Blackburn-Matzen (Seattle), Zexiang Xu (San Jose, Calif.) and Kai Zhang (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are configured to render 3D models using an importance sampling method. First, embodiments obtain a 3D model including a plurality of density values ...